Common Issues and FAQ

Stuff that is not in the manual.

I have multiple Geometry Objects but want a single G-Code file.

As of version 8 you can cambine/merge Geometry objects. Simply
select the objects that you want to caombine from the project list
and click on Edit → Join Geometry.

Now you can create a single CNC Job from the resulting Geometry
object.

My drill file is not aligned or correctly scaled to my Gerbers

11/14/2014

Parsing Excellon is a nightmare and formats from different PCB
programs seem to be quite inconsistent. FlatCAM does not have a
clear set of rules to understand coordinate numbers.

Fortunately, the problem is usually just that the coordinates
are scaled by some power of 10 and there is no data corruption.
To fix your design, just scale your Excellon object in FlatCAM
by 10 or 0.1.